EYE-SORE: A Sewerage Agency Summary of Rehabilitation Experience

P ublic awareness of the importance of the sewerage network is inevitably highlighted when the system suffers malfunction. Associated with surface collapse or increased pollution to a local watercourse the effects are more widely felt, whilst even programmed work is not without significant environmental impact. With its history of deteriorating and failed sewers, the rehabilitation work already implemented and the introduction of a strategic sewerage policy, the paper outlines aspects of the City of Manchester's experience and effort to eradicate the consequential scars of its heritage whilst also looking to the future.